{"id":29,"date":"2007-04-18T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielroop.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/resful-resources\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T02:57:14","slug":"resful-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielroop.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/resful-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resful Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last two weeks Tyler<\/a> and I have been coding like mad men, after work to get closer to a feature complete TallyHoh<\/a> beta. One of annoying things I came across when I was making the transition to Resful Rails, was attempting to set a format using the special path\/url methods. <\/p>\n

I looked for hours and it didn’t seem that anyone wanted to talk about the topic. This was very confusing to me seeing as how everyone was writing code like:
\n
\n  def index
\n    respond_to do |format|
\n      format.html => {}
\n      format.xml => {model.to_xml}
\n    end
\n  end
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Finally I found this article<\/a>, which didn’t address the problem directly but included a small table that mentioned the method. So thank you Sean Mountcastle, I appreciate your pdf.<\/p>\n

For those that are hear because they want to know how to actually write the code.<\/p>\n

If you have:
\n
\n map.resorces :feeds
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

then you should write something like:
\n
\n <%= link_to formatted_feeds_url(:format => :xml) %>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

that would generate a link like http:\/\/%yourdomain%\/feeds.xml. Just as an asside, I believe :format is the only required parameter to this method, so I think you can exclude “:format”.<\/p>\n

if you were trying to access a specific feed:
\n
\n <% @feed = Feed.find(:first) -%>
\n <%= link_to formatted_feed_url(@feed, :xml) %>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

Hope this helps atleast one person not go through the hours of searching I had to, to find this poorly documented method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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